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The Weekly Florists' RcviewJ 



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CARNATION DYE g'aV-o'«'r 



This is the real Emerald Green, the best and quickest dye on the market; you don't have to leave 

 your carnations in it till they get sleepy and dead; 30 minutes to an hour will do it, and note the 

 prices: 50c pinti 75c quart; 10 quarts for $6.00. Order today. 



JAPANESE AIR PLANT (Green Sea Moss). A St. Patrick's Day winner. 

 We have b large Btock of this great seller and can quote attractive prices on a quantity. Send 16c for a 

 ■ample (sent postpaid) , and state how much you can use. 



TIME NOW TO ORDER YOUR BASTEk SUPPLIES. 



Yon will need a large number of Plant Baskets, Plant Hampers, and Plant Boxes; Soft Chiffon Mat Pot Covers, 

 Porto Rican Mats, Crepe Papers, etc., etc. We have a complete line and can meet any need— just tell us what your 

 trade requires— at right prices. But, "do it now"— don't wait till the rush is on and stocks are broken. 



X^WN GRABS SUED, best mixture put up for retail florists to sell to their customers— Kood margin in it— 1, 2, 3 and 5-lb. packages, 

 25, 50 and 100-lb. sacks. Write for prices. WIBS WORK, strongest, best, right prices. FCRTILIZKR. Get our prices. Don't buy elsewhere. 



A* L. Randall Co. 



19-21 Randolph St, Chicago 



Wholesale Florists 



L. D. Phone Central 1496 



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Departments 



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DONT FORGET 



the Greatest Ribbon Line for Florists' 

 uses is made in Philadelphia. 



Brilliatit lusters in Taffetas, Satins, 

 Chiffons. Let us send you samples. 



The Pine Tree Silk Mills Co. 



806-808-810 Arch St., PHILADELPHIA 



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Western Florists 



Save time and freight 

 by buying 



SUPPLIES 



from the largest supply 

 house in the west 



THE BARTELDES SEED GO. 



DENVER. COLO. 



Descriptive wholesale price list now. ready 



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paring to add considerably to their range 

 of glass this season. 



John Michelsen, of E. C. Amling's 

 staff, welcomed a son at his home Feb- 

 ruary 27. 



The Flower Growers' Market last week 

 paid a dividend of twenty per cent to 

 its stockholders. 



The condition of H. Bauske's rose 

 houses is attracting a great deal of atten- 



Orange Blossoms 



Choice Orange BloBsoms, $1.00 per 

 Bprar. Carefally packed and delivered 

 f . o. D. express oflBce, Belvidere, 111. 



B. ELDREDQE, Belvidere, III. 



tion among the growers north of town. 

 Apparently gas is leaking into the houses, 

 for the entire west end of the range 

 is in a condition which nothing else will 

 account for. The ground outside, of 

 course, is frozen solid, but the soil is 

 sandy, so that a leak in the street might 

 easily find its outlet through the un- 

 frozen floor of the greenhouses. Nick 

 Kruchten 's place on the other side of 

 the street is not affected, however. 



The A. L. Kandall Co. has installed a 

 new system of accounting, employing the 

 Elliott-Fisher billing machine. Carl N. 

 Thomas, of the Eandall force, has been 

 at home for a day or two, mastering 

 an attack of the grippe. Frank Johnson 

 returned March 1 from a tnp to the 

 Twin Cities. 



Mrs. W. E. Lynch has been quite ill 

 for several days and it was at one time 

 feared she would have diphtheria. 



Kennicott Eros. Co. reports its largest 

 shipping order of the season for single 

 violets February 26. Great quantities 

 of both single and double are now being 

 shipped out of this market. 



Poehlmann Bros. Co. has been supply- 

 ing some of the retailers with forced 



pussy willow. They say Beauties are 

 coming rapidly into crop again. y 



Ernest Oechslin is getting along niciSr 

 ly at the Oak Park hospital. 



Chris Blameuser, of Niles Center, has 

 taken the stand in the Flower Growers' 

 Market formerly occupied by .-Dinstel 

 Bros., who have dissolved partnership. 

 John Dinstel will carry on the business 

 and give up selling his own stock to de- 

 vote his time to the greenhouses, con- 

 signing now to the Sinner Bros. 



Peter Eeinberg visited his carnation 

 establishment on "The Farm" February 

 28 for the first time since Christmas. He 

 did not like the looks of the place; there 

 seemed to him to be a bare spot, which 

 would just about hold four new green- 

 houses, so he decided to go ahead with 

 the work. 



E. Fransen says Scheiden & Schoos are 

 having an excellent business in carna- 

 tion cuttings. 



The Horticultural Society of Chicago 

 is planning an exhibition of roses and 

 bulb stock, to be held at the Art Institute 

 the latter part of this month. 



F. F. Benthey says he is of the opin- 

 ion there has been more shipping out of 

 this market this season than in any pre- 

 vious year. 



The E. F. Winterson Co. has been re- 

 ceiving large consignments of fine jon- 

 quils from the District of Columbia, 

 where they are grown in deep frames. 



E. E. Chappell, formerly with C. A. 

 Samuelson, who is now with Clarke Bros., 

 at Portland, Ore., writes that he is do- 

 ing well there and likes the Pacific north- 

 west very much. 



C. L. Washburn was 51 years of age 

 February 27. In company with O. P. 

 Bassett, he went to West Baden March 

 3 to try to get rid of the cold that 

 has hung on since the Indianapolis car- 

 nation convention. 



G. Hylkema, of Van Zanten Bros., 

 Hillegom, Holland, says that other bulb 

 salesmen say, and his own experience 

 backs it up, that Chicago florists are 

 ordering bulbs much lighter than they 

 are in other cities. Elsewhere the orders 

 are only slightly reduced; here the cut 

 is heavy, as a result of conditions in the 

 cut flower market. 



F. Blondeel, who operates the Peder- 

 son place at Oak Park under a lease soon 



